Sauce boat: C.42-1992

Maker(s)

Factory: Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory
Potter: Littler, William

Entities

• Sauce boat

Categories

• Soft-paste porcelain

Description

Soft-paste porcelain sauceboat, decorated with floral sprays in onglaze polychrome enamels

Soft-paste porcelain sauceboat, moulded, lead-glazed, painted onglaze in blue, green, yellow, brownish-red, pale and dark purple, and rose-pink enamels. The silver-shaped body is moulded in relief with scrolls beneath the spout and with a tail at the upper end of the handle. It stands on an oval foot with a moulded border. On each side of the body there is a floral spray. The rim and the moulded details are outlined in purple. Inside there is a floral spray and two leaves, and a flower inside the lip.

Notes

History note: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham; Dr Statham died 1967; Mrs Statham died 1970; their daughter, Miss Beryl Statham by whom lent anonymously in 1970. Bequeathed by Miss Statham, 1990, accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Miss Statham, accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum

Place(s) associated

• Longton Hall ⪼ Staffordshire ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Allocated (1992) by H.M. Government

Dating

18th Century, Mid#
George II
Circa 1753 CE - 1757 CE

School or Style

Rococo